Georgia O’Keeffe’s husband, the photographer Alfred, was Alfred Stieglitz.
O’Keeffe and Stieglitz married in 1924. He was an influential photographer, gallery owner, and promoter of modern art who exhibited her work at his New York gallery, 291, and later at An American Place. His advocacy helped introduce O’Keeffe to a wider American audience during the 1910s and 1920s.
Stieglitz also made hundreds of photographs of O’Keeffe over several decades. Their personal and professional relationship was important, but O’Keeffe’s artistic development cannot be reduced to his influence. She established a highly individual style using abstraction, flowers, bones, landscapes, and architectural forms.
The surname is sometimes confused with other celebrated photographers of the period, including Edward Steichen and Edward Weston. Stieglitz was the particular photographer who married O’Keeffe, and they remained married until his death in 1946.